Enjoy 'unli' Facebook for free, only with Smart

Manila, Philippines -  Filipinos on Facebook  now over 27 million and the eighth biggest community in terms of nationality  have another reason to love the massively popular social networking site.

Aside from keeping one informed, entertained, updated, and connected in so many ways, Facebook has also become the friendliest, most accessible site available to the social networking-crazy Pinoy.

More importantly, access to Facebook has become free, thanks to wireless leader and official Facebook mobile partner Smart Communications Inc.

Access to Facebook is offered free for over 50 million Smart subscribers, and they can get on the social networking site with virtually any kind of cellphone they have in their hands.

“We want to encourage more Filipinos to discover the benefits of being online and on Facebook  whether for information, for entertainment, and for simply keeping abreast with the rest of the world,” said Emmanuel Lorenzana, head of Smart’s Wireless Consumer Division.

To get started, Smart subscribers simply need to text FB to 211, then click on the download link which will be sent via SMS for free. Simply follow the instructions to get the “Facebook Mobile” app always on, ready to use, “unli” and for free, with a P1 maintaining balance.

By using the Facebook Mobile app, a big bulk of Smart subscribers  more than 24 million users of basic but MMS-capable handsets  can connect to Facebook right away, all day using any “Java” cellphone  almost 2,500 kinds of it. 

Having free and “unli” access through the easy-to-use Facebook Mobile app means always being updated, and being low on load is not even a problem anymore. Users can access Facebook with the phone they are used to and comfortable with. And with Smart’s “nationwidest” coverage, users can check Facebook wherever they please.

With free and “unli” access to Facebook, Smart subscribers can continue enjoying Facebook even when they are mobile, right on their cellphone. They can make quick checks on live news feeds, post comments, view profiles and photo albums, update their status, read and send private messages, and find friends, without having to find an Internet café.

The free offer is only for access to Facebook, and regular charges will apply when a user clicks on a link to browse photos, videos, news articles or any other content outside of Facebook. Users must also set the Smart site m.smart.com.ph as their mobile browser’s home page to ensure that no charges will apply upon start of browsing.

Users who are availing themselves of the free Facebook offer can also protect themselves against unexpected data charges, by subscribing to affordable, catch-all data plans such as Always On 20, which provides 45 MB of data, valid for 24 hours.

“The growth of the number of Filipinos getting on Facebook and the sheer amount of information that we share in that space like photos, videos, have been simply phenomenal. And the experience for a user becomes twice as delightful if done via mobile  more timely, more personal  which is how we would like to engage our subscribers to ‘live more,’” Lorenzana said.

Smart is in a unique and pivotal position to encourage this  at the same time as we make data connectivity more pervasive in the country, and make connected devices more widely available,” Lorenzana added.